Walked in on a half-robbed home...

ITDEFX & AngellicLulu-
The school knows. Of course, since he was just the lookout, unless his prints show up on the tv, I don't know if there's much that I can do. But someone's prints are on that tv, and I'm willing to bet they have a match.

ITD-I disagree about students saying "Hey he's one of us" and that lead to no respect or discipline in the classroom. Just about all of my experiences have been very different--a student coming to me FIRST, to tell me that the evening before her step brother raped her is an extreme example...but generally I've found that when students actually get to know the teacher they realize that the teacher is a human being. I shit, fart and piss; I have children, a house, I cook dinner. I play games, I read books, I can repeat lines from SpongeBob.

I got a good education, went to a great high school, became a teacher, and can still enjoy life. My education has enhanced my life, just because I'm smart and went to college doesn't mean that I don't love stupid ass shit. I don't judge my students. I think the teachers that have the most problems are those that belittle student interests--That trash videogames, or music, or horror films or clothing. These teachers are the ones that seem to have a problem connecting to students...

Whatever the case, I'm going to give my cousin a call (she's a Chicago cop) in the next day or two and see if there's been any progress made on the case.
 
I've noticed a trend in education that goes from elementary school all the way to the college level that i've mentioned to my aunt (she's a teacher). It seems that the number of male teachers decreases as the education level decreases, but rises as the education level rises. Elementary schools seem to be staffed mostly by female teachers, but as you rise in grade level there begins to be more male teachers.

I had one male teacher in elementary school, a few in high school, almost all of my teachers in college have been male.
 
Yeah, men are definitely a minority in most elementary schools. A school here only has one man working there and he's the principal. Men don't seem to have as much patience with young children, maybe that's why.

I know i couldn't teach young kids, i'd end up killing at least one of them.:lol:
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Yeah, men are definitely a minority in most elementary schools. A school here only has one man working there and he's the principal. Men don't seem to have as much patience with young children, maybe that's why.

I know i couldn't teach young kids, i'd end up killing at least one of them.:lol:[/QUOTE]
i like teaching 4th and 5th... younger and i'm easily frustrated.
 
damn to think ADT offered our home a free alarm system because it was in a nice neighborhood and our house is one of the nicest looking houses on a main street. All we had to do was put their sign on our yard...maybe i should've took the offer.
 
[quote name='AngellicLulu']i like teaching 4th and 5th... younger and i'm easily frustrated.[/quote]

I absolutely cannot deal with k,1 and 2!!! I have covered/subbed for those levels and it's like they look at me like "HUH" when I talk to them and they go into their own little world.


[quote name='JolietJake']Yeah, men are definitely a minority in most elementary schools. A school here only has one man working there and he's the principal. Men don't seem to have as much patience with young children, maybe that's why.

I know i couldn't teach young kids, i'd end up killing at least one of them.:lol:[/quote]

If the principal is the only male in the entire school, then he is fucking discriminating against male teachers and male employees. He must be hiring only the hot young women. There are schools like that in the county.

I think 8th grade (middle school) is my upper limit. Forget it teaching high schoolers as most of them don't give a shit anymore.

I know the feeling of wanting to kill one of them. ;)
 
[quote name='Temporaryscars']While we're on the subject, what should renters do to prevent this? I have renter's insurance, but do I have to have receipts?[/quote]

Nothing really. You can only 'deter' a thief depending on his laziness and/or desperation. It's far easier to rob the home w/ no ADS home security than the one w/ not. But if that crackhead needs your dvd player to pay for his fix & he stupidly decides there aren't any easier marks around, he'll do whatever it takes to break into your house, ADS or not, locks or not. All about you can do is keep all your receipts for the insurance claims.
 
Most insurance companies have a collectibles policy as well. It will cost you more for insurance depending on the value. I would recommend taking digital pictures of your stuff and burning it to a CD. That way you can provide visuals for your items. Give a copy of the CD to a friend to hold onto in case the original is taken!
 
its a mixed bag all that. i agree with any of you who say you should only tell people so much but dont ream the guy ovr it. nobody chooses to get robbed and even moreso who really expects it? shit happens and it sucks that there are lazy enough people in the world whod rather steal than work and earn something. justice will be served and in the future he will be more careful but i respect that fact that he tried to be friendly with his students since finding a common interest is a good way to open up communication with people.

aside from that when you go shopping you all may want to carry a bag that you can put stuff . anytime ive ever bought something i know could set me as a target for robbery i put it in a backpack or something so nobody knows.
 
[quote name='ITDEFX']I absolutely cannot deal with k,1 and 2!!! I have covered/subbed for those levels and it's like they look at me like "HUH" when I talk to them and they go into their own little world.




If the principal is the only male in the entire school, then he is fucking discriminating against male teachers and male employees. He must be hiring only the hot young women. There are schools like that in the county.

I think 8th grade (middle school) is my upper limit. Forget it teaching high schoolers as most of them don't give a shit anymore.

I know the feeling of wanting to kill one of them. ;)[/quote]Maybe, he's a dick anyway. Actually here is a news story about his wife, a teacher.

http://www.wsmv.com/news/18198520/detail.html#-

The guy has control issues, i always figured he hired women in the hopes that he'd be able to control them more. He's had numerous complaints filed against him, most the teachers there hate his ass.
 
As the economy gets worse, stories like this will just keep increasing.

I think gamers are going to have to start taking just-short-of-extreme measures to protect their systems and collections. I think many of us are going to have to start hiding the bulk of our collection very well. Leave a handful out so that the assholes think they scored, when in reality, they got maybe one or two games you really wanted and some others that you're ambivalent about. Maybe devices that clamp down consoles (to make it time-consuming, at least, to steal them) are going to become a decent industry. Sad to think about security peripherals, but it is what it is.

I also think that people that do these sorts of things are probably irredeemable pieces of living, breathing, resource-wasting shit, and if your state has its own "Castle Doctrine" and you've got a gun, I think it's the homeowner's obligation, if the situation arises, to shoot to kill, not just for the household's own protection, but for everyone else's. Yeah, maybe kids like this will eventually 'contribute' to society by drifting from one bullshit, third-shift job to another with months-long periods of unemployment in between, but do we really need them. And now I post, and wait for someone on my Ignore list to call me myopic and embittered and then spew some rhetoric about how often imprisonment turns criminals around. Whatthefuckever.

EDIT: You know, reading what seems like multiple game theft stories a week has also lead me to think that maybe a DL-only console gaming future won't be so bad. Sure, if they grab your console, they have your entire collection, but with services like XBLA and Steam as precedent, as long as you can prove that you are really you, those games (and hopefully saves by that point) would all be yours again either upon recovering the console or buying a new one and opting to 'transfer' the games to your new system. Maybe you could even make it optional for the console to need to 'blip' online every couple days (or once a week) to keep it functioning. I just saw an article on the front page of Yahoo! about churches using GPS to track down Nativity scenes (!) that thieves steal. I wonder...if we can effectively 'chip' everything of significant value, is the ability to track down stolen goods worth the "Big Brother" overtones that such a society suggest?

And hey, I'm sure that anything that would bring the used game market virtually to an end would be something worth pursuing for The Industry, right?
 
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My Cousin's - cousin had his shit robbed a few weeks ago. He lost all his BR's, PS3, 360, Wii and ALL HIS GAMES. The dumbasses sold it to a pawn shop and of course let them take their finger prints and id. Cops found them quite easily, but was only able to recover the PS3.

You might want to consider going to local area pawn shops, and game stops to report your items as being stolen. If you kept records of your serials, then if the bastards bring it into gamestop or a pawn shop..then they will have a record of the people selling it (both id, written and even video tapes).

I smell sweet justice on the horizon for you OP!!
 
[quote name='JolietJake']Why did he only get the PS3 back? Don't pawn shops have to hold things for a while before selling them?[/quote]


One this is south Florida we are talking about where shit happens. Second, what's more fun, a 360 or a PS triple? He probably kept the 360, formatted the drive then installed his gamer profile on it and sold the Triple to the pawn shop.
 
[quote name='jollydwarf']As the economy gets worse, stories like this will just keep increasing.



EDIT: You know, reading what seems like multiple game theft stories a week has also lead me to think that maybe a DL-only console gaming future won't be so bad. Sure, if they grab your console, they have your entire collection, but with services like XBLA and Steam as precedent, as long as you can prove that you are really you, those games (and hopefully saves by that point) would all be yours again either upon recovering the console or buying a new one and opting to 'transfer' the games to your new system. Maybe you could even make it optional for the console to need to 'blip' online every couple days (or once a week) to keep it functioning. I just saw an article on the front page of Yahoo! about churches using GPS to track down Nativity scenes (!) that thieves steal. I wonder...if we can effectively 'chip' everything of significant value, is the ability to track down stolen goods worth the "Big Brother" overtones that such a society suggest?

And hey, I'm sure that anything that would bring the used game market virtually to an end would be something worth pursuing for The Industry, right?[/QUOTE]

Except, of course, that Microsoft said that my downloads were console specific and I would have to REPURCHASE them all...I'm still looking into this, because I do plan on getting another 360, and I had at least three or four hundred dollars worth of downloads...
 
[quote name='loserboy']Except, of course, that Microsoft said that my downloads were console specific and I would have to REPURCHASE them all...I'm still looking into this, because I do plan on getting another 360, and I had at least three or four hundred dollars worth of downloads...[/QUOTE]
transfer the rights and redownload them all.
 
Except, of course, that Microsoft said that my downloads were console specific and I would have to REPURCHASE them all...

That does not compute. I was under the impression that you could redownload games as often as needed, it's just that you would have to be logged into Live to access such things as XBLA games. After all, I heard one or two of their consoles have broken. Those people may have decided to buy another console as a result. Something very wrong about this, sorry. Maybe a woefully misinformed and apathetic customer service rep?
 
[quote name='Layziebones']Wait. Wouldn't your Cousin's cousin be you?[/quote]

No, it's my cousin, who has a cousin on his mother's side of the family. My uncle is related by blood, while is wife isn't. So that makes it my cousin's -cousin. Unless I got something wrong again.
 
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